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Free session covers Medicare options

Vintage House hosts a presentation by the Health Insurance Counseling & Advocacy Program, with news and updates about Medicare options, on Wednesday, October 22. If you are turning age 65 this year, you are one of over 8,000 people per day newly eligible for Medicare.... Continue

Model behavior

Sonoma kids, tweens and teens strut their stuff at the annual Fashion in the Vineyards, an annual fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley. Held at Nancy and John Lasseter’s train barn in Glen Ellen, the evening, according to Event Chair Dana... Continue

Join the 'Club'

Martha Rosenblatt, an after-school reading mentor in El Verano School's new "Reading Club," works with first grader Fatima who is excited about learning to read. The "Club" meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:40 p.m. for one hour in the school library. New mentors are... Continue

Forum on nonprofit management of area parks

A public update from the nonprofit operators of Jack London State Historic Park, Sugarloaf State Park and Austin Creek State Recreation Area will be held Wednesday October 22 at the Sonoma Land Trust Offices, 822 Fifth Street in Santa Rosa. These qualified non-profits entered into... Continue

Sonoma Profiles: Newton Dal Poggetto

(By Linda Blum) The Sonoma Valley has had its share of resident novelists, such as M.F.K. Fisher and Jack London, who brought alive the aura of the Valley of the Moon. But that was then, and now we have a budding author of mysteries and... Continue

Meet the council candidates

October 6-27: Each Monday in October, Vintage Sonoma will host a single Sonoma City Council candidate in a fee forum open to the public. The schedule: October 6, Ken Brown at 11 a.m. and Rachel Hundley at 6 p.m. October 13, Gary Edwards at 11... Continue

Springs Community Alliance meets

The public is invited to the monthly meeting of the Springs Community Alliance on Thursday, October 9, 7 p.m. at the Sonoma Valley Grange Hall. Under discussion will be approval of the final Springs Community Alliance by-laws; nominations for the Springs Community Executive Committee, taken... Continue

The SMAART choice

(By Walt Williams) You love Sonoma, love the weather, love the environment, love the wine, love the people, love the events, and love the quality of life. You moved here because you wanted to raise your kids in a blissful paradise and now you want... Continue

Confronting the empty nest

Dear Readers:  I didn’t realize this is what I’d signed up for as a young man coming home from my Friday night organic chemistry lab at UC Irvine so many years ago to receive my 30th birthday present from my wife: a small package that... Continue